Despite being the largest multilateral provider of climate finance, the World Bank supplies very little evidence to support its claims about the amount of climate finance it provides.
Despite the illegality, absurdity, and criminal nature of his endeavour, Putin has shown not to accept defeat in Ukraine. On the contrary, since the winter of 2022, he has been preparing a spring offensive. The dimensions of these preparations, including hundreds of thousands of newly mobilized soldiers, are huge, which suggests that an offensive rivalling the February 2022 invasion is in the making.
Male gatekeeping and biased social norms in difficult settings characterized by fragility, authoritarianism, and conflict create challenges for women’s political participation. This article explores the nature of challenges experienced by women and how they exercise political agency in such settings—as voters, claimants, and brokers of services, and as activists.
This 33rd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in over 100 countries and territories worldwide in 2022. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff conducted during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
This 211-page report is a groundbreaking investigation into violence and discrimination to lesbian, bisexual, and queer women and non-binary people in 26 countries.
The present report report documents the treatment of the Chagossians, an Indigenous people whom the UK and US forced from their homes in the 1960s and 1970s so that a US military base could be built on Diego Galán, in the Chagos Archipelago.
State actors and private individuals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have entrapped lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people on social media and dating applications, subjected them to online extortion, online harassment, and outing, and relied on illegitimately obtained digital photos, chats, and similar information in prosecutions, in violation of the right to privacy, due process, and other human rights.
There is enough data to determine that Russia employed a three-fold nuclear signalling approach of deterring foreign military intervention, dissuading or at least delaying foreign aid to Ukraine and intimidating the government in Kyiv.
The EU has developed interoperable digital public infrastructure as part of its digital single market, ensuring smooth cross-border interactions by individuals, businesses and governments. This brief argues that the EU could offer useful support on interoperable digital public infrastructure to Africa, which aspires to build its own digital single market as part of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
This book brings together diverse African experts to critically and independently assess the AU’s performance over the last two decades and proposes ways in which the organisation can serve the African people better. It contributes to the growing body of literature on the AU and African integration.
The largest, most youthful electorate in Nigerian history will head to the polls soon to decide high-stakes presidential, parliamentary and state-level races. Numerous violent incidents have already marred the campaign. Authorities can take several steps to lessen the dangers before, during and after the vote.
It is still possible for the EU to work with Georgia. But the bloc should condition the financial and political support it provides – starting with the 12 points that Brussels designated in June 2022.
North African states hold great potential to become important partners in Europe’s energy transition in the medium and long term. The EU and its member states can make stronger use of the European Green Deal to direct investment in North Africa in support of clean energy.
Nearly 12 years since Syria’s civil war began, the eyes of the world have shifted away from the country. No political solution is in sight. But while the European Union and its member states have turned their attention to other problems, there is no such luxury for Syrian refugees and the countries to which they have fled.
The paper gathered the views of sustainable development experts in the global South and North about the key research priorities for understanding the global impacts of European policy and practice. It sets out the aims and methodology of the horizon-scanning project, presents the findings and indicates the next steps.
This policy brief explores the EU’s role as a global peace and security actor and its peacebuilding mission in the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia.
The historical failure to sufficiently tackle the climate and ecological crisis could create consequences that challenge the ability of societies to tackle the root causes of this crisis.
The fundamental role that water resources play in human development has been highlighted in multiple ways. Out of 169 SDG targets, 59 were found to have direct links and synergies with the water goal SDG6.
As the relationship between the United States and China deteriorates, the battle between the two powers for supremacy in low-carbon industries is leading the slide. From batteries to solar panels to rare-earth metals used in wind turbines, technologies that over the past decade have cratered in cost and surged in scale – thanks to innovation supported by both Washington and Beijing – are targets in yet another trans-Pacific trade fight.
Young people, particularly young women, have been visible and important contributors to the anti-military resistance, challenging age and gender norms in patriarchal Myanmar society. Yet two years after the coup they remain largely excluded from formal political power, and their role in the opposition movement often goes unacknowledged.
